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ashfield Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Ashfield, as for example in Nottinghamshire and Suffolk; these are named from Old English æsc ash + feld ‘open country’.

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ashfield Family Facts

Distribution of ashfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of ashfield families
 7-12
 3-6
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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